The rhetoric of Constantinianism and anti-Constantinianism, with which I am often associated, can be quite misleading just to the extent that it can suggest a far too clear alternative.
John Howard Yoder sometimes sounded as if the choice between those alternatives was and is clear. In fact, however, he recognized that even when Rome made Christianity the only legal faith of the Empire there were faithful forms of life that continued to shape the life of the church. Indeed, Yoder observes:
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